My Scripting

Meeting with Peter

Today we had to pitch our idea to Peter. Me and Phil went through our idea with him, and he seemed impressed with what we had come up with, and liked the gags we had come up with for it.

So we now know we are on the right lines for a god story, we just need to sebttle on what exactly happens and what the characters say.

Group meating with Sean

Today we had to meet up with Sean, we were all a bit nervous about aying we werent keen on hs idea of the estate agent.

We got through that though and he accepted it but thought we still needed to add a bit more edge to our film. He then gave us the idea of have it as a documentary style with a monster.

Our group liked this idea and spent a long time this afternnon/ this eavning thinking up ideas invloving the documentary. We have come up with having it as a family of monsters. From here we have come up with some nice ideas for the story.

Today we went through our idea with Sean where he said he was a fan of the monster part of our idea but wanted to change it to an estate agent idea, where there is an estate agent who takes a monster around the house trying to sell the house to the monster and they have to jump out of view when the hear someone coming.

Our group hasn't realy taken with this idea unfortuanlely, so we are going to carry on with our current story idea. 

Since my last post my group has developed our monster story.

To the following:

Monster living under the stairs. (he is huge in comparison to the size of the cupboard.

Monster has slippers, dressing gown, face pack, blindfold.

As the monster relaxes theres a lot of noise coming from outside so he leaves the cupboard and gets jumped on by children dressed up as monsters for a monster themed birthday part. He is petrofied at first but he then gets accepted by the children and the have a good time.

Monster shot ideas

Shots

1.     Starts with black screen, fades into tittles hearing a kettle steaming/boiling.

2.     Fades into kettle on stove (perhaps a reflections of the monster in kettle)

3.     Cuts to black, you hear the sound of two cupboard doors get opened and slammed shut.

4.     Camera is situated inside a cupboard. As the monster opens the two cupboard doors it shows the monsters face (with shadows/slightly out of focus), you see the items in the cupboard. Depth of field.

5.     Monster reaches in and grabs what he needs e.g. sugar

6.     Mid shot you see the mug on a side with up to the monsters chest. Then you see the monster pour the water, add the cocoa, whipped cream, and marsh mellows.

7.     Cuts to him sitting in chair with his mug.

8.     Cuts to a close up of his face with the mug in front of him, he does a massive sniff of the hot chocolate, and then he eats the whole mug.

9.     Turns on lamp, then reaches to the bookshelf next to him, puts on three piece glasses and takes a book and opens it to start reading.

10.                        Then you here stomping footsteps- he sighs

11.                        Stomping a second time but loader, causes dust falling, maybe a sneeze, slight camera shake.

12.                        3^rd time is the biggest and causes the lighting to go out.

13.                        Cuts a shot under the bed so it’s dark and shadowy, you see maybe him open a hatch, and you see his glowing eyes.

14.                        Cuts to a shot from his point of view seeing the kids feet running around

15.                        Cuts to the monster standing and goes raaaarrrrrrrrrrr.

16.                        Cuts to a shot from an above point of view, seeing the children perfectly still looking up at him (you see his shadow towering over them).

17.                        Kid’s eyes look to the left.

18.                        Monster turns head and you just see a kid who jumps at him and camera falls as though he’s been hit.

19.                        It all goes to chaos, can have monsters on the floor and a little kid shouts get back here in a deep voice and pulls his ankle.

20.                        Then he starts crying, they all feel sorry for him and see them group around and hug him.

21.                        Then show a little girl reach out and give him a little tub of ice cream.

22.                        Fades out to black